Ezekiel 27:18
New Revised Standard Version
Damascus traded with you for your abundant goods—because of your great wealth of every kind—wine of Helbon, and white wool.

Contemporary English Version
The people of Damascus saw what you had to offer and brought you wine from Helbon and wool from Zahar.

New American Bible
Damascus traded with you for your many wares, so great was your wealth, exchanging Helbon wine and Zahar wool.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy works, the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best colour.

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The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy works, the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best colour.

Damascus

Genesis 15:2 And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.

1 Kings 11:24,25 And he gathered men against him, and he became a captain of robbers, when David slew them of Soba: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt there, and they made him king in Damascus. . . .

Isaiah 7:8 But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rasin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be a people:

Acts 9:2 And asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues: that if he found any men and women of this way, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

90 miles from the Mediterranean by way of Antioch, and

100 from the Euphrates, in lat.

36 deg

11'25 north, long.

37 deg

9 east; and previous to its destruction by an earthquake in

1822, occupied, including its suburbs, eight small hills, with the intermediate valleys, comprehending a circuit of about seven miles; and its inhabitants were variously estimated at from

100,000 to

258,00 souls

Context
A Lament for Tyre
17Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants with the best corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil and rosin in thy fairs. 18The men of Damascus were thy merchants in the multitude of thy works, the multitude of divers riches, in rich wine, in wool of the best colour.19Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.…
Cross References
Genesis 14:15
And dividing his company, he rushed upon them in the night, and defeated them: and pursued them as far as Hoba, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

Isaiah 7:8
But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rasin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be a people:

Jeremiah 49:23
Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they have heard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the sea: through care they could not rest.

Ezekiel 27:19
Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.

Ezekiel 27:33
Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst fill many people: which by the multitude of thy riches, and of thy people didst enrich the kings of the earth.

Ezekiel 47:16
Emath, Berotha, Sabarim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Emath the house of Tichon, which is by the border of Auran.

Ezekiel 27:17
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